I heard the saddest story last week and I am hoping makers in the San Francisco, CA area can help out. FIND THIS STOLEN BICYCLE! – Saul Griffith (MAKE advisory board member, co-creator of HOWTOONS, instructables, genius award winner…) was speaking at “Compost Modern” about the environment, energy, taking bicycles places – you know, earthy […]
Full list! – Greener Gadgets 2009: THE WINNERS! It was a roller-coaster ride of a panel discussion at the Live Greener Gadgets Design Competition Judging at the close of Friday’s Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City. After a 10-minute overview of some of the notable entries by moderator Allan Chochinov from Core77, the judges–Jeff […]
By audience “vote” with applause (applause meter!) at the GreenGadget design competition presented by Core77 – the Tweet-a-watt won 1st place!! The prize was $3,000 and we’re donating it to Engineers without Borders – this open source hardware project, source code, schematics and all work present / future will be in the public domain. The […]
We have our five winners for the Crown Publishing giveaway of The Paper Architect. They are: Kelly Faerie Sleep Goblin Daniel Dorsen WoofBoy111 Richard Kaufman Congrats you guys! I’ll send you an email and you can return your mailing addresses. And after you make some of the projects in the book, please send us pictures […]
Here’s the torrent of Episode 9 of Make: television! Episode 109: Computer Making Music & Personal Flight RecorderMeet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. In the Workshop, John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that […]
The Cowtown Computer Congress (CCCKC) is opening of their Underground Lab to the public for a week of events starting March 2, 2009. The CCCKC is the first organization of its kind in the Midwest. They hope to serve the community by providing technology classes, donating unique projects to local organizations, and providing technology assistance […]
Although it’s been years since I’ve done much papercraft to speak of, it’s always been a craftform that’s fascinated me. When I was a kid, I used to get those Dover Publication papercraft books, of castles and other historical buildings, and I’d spend countless hours cutting, folding, and gluing. I made an entire Medieval castle […]
